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How to Design the Core Engine of Your Board Game

Brand Game Development

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

This communication happens on five levels: the core engine of the game, mechanics, rules, the internal narrative or “theme”, and the external narrative or “community and marketing.” ” This guide comes in three parts: What’s the core engine of a game? That’s no accident.

Engine

Engine Engineering Mechanics Games

Why isn't Godot an ECS-based game engine?

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This design became common in game engines and libraries in the early 2010s. This can be understood by examining the Engine and Game Logic parts separately: Engine. Game logic. Still (while, by far, not the majority) some types of games will see a performance benefit when using ECS in the game logic side.

Game Engine

Game Engine Engine Engineering Sprite

Harmony Games Deploys a Fully Custom Game Backend Utilizing AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK)

AWS Games

AUGUST 13, 2024

Introduction : The importance of selecting a proper game backend Selecting a game backend solution is one of the most significant decisions that game studios face during development. Harmony Games, a mobile game studio founded in 2023, considered two possible paths for solving the backend problem.

Tile

Tile Development Cross platform Games

Adventures in Map Zooming, Part 2: Engine-level Architecture

Grid Sage Games

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Taking a different tack from last time , I decided that it would be worth getting really dirty with low-level engine work for the next attempt at map zooming. If we play by the engine rules we get to keep that functionality in its existing simple package, which generally means massive savings on CPU cycles. Enter: the quad.

Engine

Engine Engineering Tile Feature

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: String and StringName are now mostly cross-compatible throughout the engine API, as well as in various GDScript-specific expressions and statements ( GH-68747 ). Core: Add feature tags to signify engine float precision ( GH-69538 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

Godot Engine reaches 2.0 stable

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

This version worked well but we felt it was still far from the usability and features of a modern game engine. The more urgent issue was to improve the 2D engine so we worked hard again and released Godot 1.1, In the vein of larger game engines, Godot has now live editing support. Live scene editing.

Engine

Engine Engineering Editing Debug

Top 10 Tools Every Game Developer Needs

iXie gaming

JANUARY 11, 2023

In this piece, we shall be looking at the best 10 tools to use for game development, including tools to make art, code, and music. This tool is unarguably the most common game development tool among developers. Unity is a game engine for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. This tool is perfect for making 3D games.

Game Developer

Game Developer Game Development Development Tile

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 10

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Every beta release so far has included a lot of fixes in one or more key areas, and the next major version of the engine starts to finally look complete. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 2D: Simplify isometric tile shape polygon in TileSet to 4 vertices ( GH-70238 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Animation Animation

Godot XR progress update June 2021

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 3, 2021

Windows Mixed Reality headsets are currently only supported through SteamVR as WMR natively only supports DirectX game engines. One of the bigger changes we did to enabled XR support in Godot 4 is implementing multiview support into the rendering engine. This means that the render buffer is divided into smaller tiles.

Tile

Tile Render Prototyping Writing

Accelerating Load Times for DirectX Games and Apps with GDeflate for DirectStorage

Nvidia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

We’re looking forward to next-generation game engines benefiting from GDeflate by dramatically reducing loading times. Resource streaming and data compression Today’s video games feature extremely detailed interactive environments, requiring the management of enormous assets. a modern I/O streaming API from Microsoft.

Tile

Tile Data Content Games

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 19, 2022

This beta includes a few big changes which may interest a lot of users: String and StringName are now mostly cross-compatible throughout the engine API, as well as in various GDScript-specific expressions and statements ( GH-68747 ). Core: Add feature tags to signify engine float precision ( GH-69538 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Render Shaders

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 13

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 17, 2023

Several breaking changes were made to the C# API to bring it closer to the engine core and make it more consistent overall ( GH-71445 , GH-71458 , GH-71423 , GH-71431 , GH-71424 , GH-71456 ). Editor: Make keyboard shortcuts in tile data editors consistent with tilemap editor ( GH-71517 ). This release is built from commit caacade56.

Beta

Beta Dev Debug Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.1 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

macOS: Enable multithreaded OpenGL engine flag when using multithreaded VisualServer ( GH-54526 ). Tiles: Fix TileSet editor workspace breaking ( GH-55059 ). Tiles: Only add light occlusion for visible TileMaps ( GH-54435 ). Tiles: Fix selecting next/previous subtile in TileSet editor ( GH-55261 ).

Tile

Tile Render Bug Collision

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 10

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Every beta release so far has included a lot of fixes in one or more key areas, and the next major version of the engine starts to finally look complete. Some of the most notables feature changes in this update are: 2D: Simplify isometric tile shape polygon in TileSet to 4 vertices ( GH-70238 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Animation Animation

Atari ST Programming: A Simple Game in STOS

Retro Game Coders

APRIL 29, 2022

Now we can move sprites in STOS we need to put things together to see how we can actually begin creating playable games. Along the way we will look at some more new features and concepts so you can understand more of how STOS works versus programming languages and game engines you might be used to. Avoid the Monster.

Sprite

Sprite Collision Tile Games

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.1 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 8, 2021

macOS: Enable multithreaded OpenGL engine flag when using multithreaded VisualServer ( GH-54526 ). Tiles: Fix TileSet editor workspace breaking ( GH-55059 ). Tiles: Only add light occlusion for visible TileMaps ( GH-54435 ). Tiles: Fix selecting next/previous subtile in TileSet editor ( GH-55261 ).

Tile

Tile Render Bug Build

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.1 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 15, 2021

macOS: Enable multithreaded OpenGL engine flag when using multithreaded VisualServer ( GH-54526 ). Tiles: Fix TileSet editor workspace breaking ( GH-55059 ). Tiles: Only add light occlusion for visible TileMaps ( GH-54435 ). Tiles: Fix selecting next/previous subtile in TileSet editor ( GH-55261 ).

Tile

Tile Render Bug Build

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.1

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 17, 2021

macOS: Enable multithreaded OpenGL engine flag when using multithreaded VisualServer ( GH-54526 ). Tiles: Fix TileSet editor workspace breaking ( GH-55059 ). Tiles: Only add light occlusion for visible TileMaps ( GH-54435 ). Tiles: Fix selecting next/previous subtile in TileSet editor ( GH-55261 ). which fixes that issue.

Tile

Tile Render Shaders Editing

Top Emerging Free Game Development Tools and Trends!

Big Games

JANUARY 8, 2024

OpenGameArt: Another excellent resource for free game assets, OpenGameArt focuses on 2D graphics and audio. Find character sprites, environment tiles, UI elements, sound effects, and music tracks, all contributed by artists and musicians within the game development community.

Game Developer

Game Developer Game Development Development Cross platform

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

After more than 18 months of development, all Godot Engine contributors are proud to present our biggest release so far, Godot 3.0! It brings a brand new rendering engine with state-of-the-art PBR workflow for 3D, an improved assets pipeline, GDNative to load native code as plugins, C# 7.0 New audio engine. SVG support.

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

Module 4: Designing vs. Programming (Lessons 1-3)

Game Designing

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Oftentimes the artists don’t do a whole lot, and that’s because the game engine themselves has programming that you can call on, functions you can use that will generate that kind of effect. So it’s a lot easier for a game engine to generate them and render them efficiently if it’s done with code.

Game Designer

Game Designer Game Design Tile Engine

Adventures in Map Zooming, Part 1: Realtime Image Scaling

Grid Sage Games

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

I’ve always been interested in experimenting with larger alternative interface layouts, though because I didn’t see much promise in them, and doing so deviates from the core design, the idea was to wait until at least a likely engine update down the road, as well as the completion of most of Cogmind’s content.

Render

Render Engine Engineering FPS

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

beta just yet as we expect the engine to be unstable until we have more testing done. Throughout the last two years the core of the engine has seen a lot of improvements and refactoring to bring it to the next level in terms of maintainability, reliability, and performance. We don’t recommend migrating large projects to the Godot 4.0

Beta

Beta Engine Engineering Feature

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 11, 2020

see recent devblogs on GDScript typed instructions , Complex Text Layout , Tiles editor , documentation , and 2D rendering improvements !), And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! While development keeps going at full speed towards Godot 4.0 (see a lot of work is also being done on the 3.2 tinyexr 1.0.0,

Beta

Beta Dev Bug Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

CSG: CSGPolygon fixes and features: Angle simplification, UV tiling distance, interval type ( GH-52509 ). CSG: CSGPolygon fixes and features: Angle simplification, UV tiling distance, interval type ( GH-52509 ). TileSet: Fix selection of spaced atlas tile when using priority ( GH-50886 ). Crypto: Add HMACContext ( GH-48869 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

JULY 27, 2021

TileSet: Fix selection of spaced atlas tile when using priority ( GH-50886 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! TextureButton: Add flip_h and flip_v properties ( GH-30424 ). TextureProgress: Improve behavior with nine patch ( GH-45815 ). Theme: Various improvements to the Theme API ( GH-49487 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

CSG: CSGPolygon fixes and features: Angle simplification, UV tiling distance, interval type ( GH-52509 ). CSG: CSGPolygon fixes and features: Angle simplification, UV tiling distance, interval type ( GH-52509 ). TileSet: Fix selection of spaced atlas tile when using priority ( GH-50886 ). Crypto: Add HMACContext ( GH-48869 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

CSG: CSGPolygon fixes and features: Angle simplification, UV tiling distance, interval type ( GH-52509 ). CSG: CSGPolygon fixes and features: Angle simplification, UV tiling distance, interval type ( GH-52509 ). TileSet: Fix selection of spaced atlas tile when using priority ( GH-50886 ). Crypto: Add HMACContext ( GH-48869 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

CSG: CSGPolygon fixes and features: Angle simplification, UV tiling distance, interval type ( GH-52509 ). CSG: CSGPolygon fixes and features: Angle simplification, UV tiling distance, interval type ( GH-52509 ). TileSet: Fix selection of spaced atlas tile when using priority ( GH-50886 ). Crypto: Add HMACContext ( GH-48869 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 6, 2021

TileSet: Fix selection of spaced atlas tile when using priority ( GH-50886 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! TextureButton: Add flip_h and flip_v properties ( GH-30424 ). TextureProgress: Improve behavior with nine patch ( GH-45815 ). Theme: Various improvements to the Theme API ( GH-49487 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 19, 2021

TileSet: Fix selection of spaced atlas tile when using priority ( GH-50886 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Theme: Various improvements to the Theme API ( GH-49487 ). Theme: StyleBox fake anti-aliasing improvements ( GH-51589 ). Viewport: Allow input echo when changing UI focus ( GH-44456 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

TileSet: Fix selection of spaced atlas tile when using priority ( GH-50886 ). And many more bug fixes and usability enhancements all around the engine! Theme: Various improvements to the Theme API ( GH-49487 ). Theme: StyleBox fake anti-aliasing improvements ( GH-51589 ). Viewport: Allow input echo when changing UI focus ( GH-44456 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 24, 2022

seen as small bumps between tiles on a GridMap). The fix seems relatively safe but this will require heavy testing to make sure it doesn't regress - if you have 3D games using Bullet physics, please try this RC 2 and report any issue. if something that worked fine in 3.4.x x no longer works in this 3.5

Render

Render Shaders Mesh Console

NVIDIA DLSS Plugin and Reflex Now Available for Unreal Engine

Nvidia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Leveling up your games with the cutting-edge technologies found in the biggest blockbusters just got a lot simpler. As of today, Unreal Engine 4 (UE4). Leveling up your games with the cutting-edge technologies found in the biggest blockbusters just got a lot simpler. The NVIDIA RTX UE4 4.25 branches have also received updates.

Ray Tracing

Ray Tracing Engine Engineering Technology

I Make Board Games in Tabletop Simulator (A Guest Post)

Brand Game Development

MAY 18, 2020

My name is Kenny, and I create games on Tabletop Simulator for publishers and designers. I also create all the social media posts for Pangea Games, including the weird cheese question. Tabletop Simulator is a physics-based board game engine which you can buy on Steam.

Simulation

Simulation Games Demo Playtesting

Getting started with HaxeFlixel in 2021

Radiator Blog

APRIL 9, 2021

For an upcoming project commission, I'm making a 2D game with crowd simulation and simple controls that works well on mobile browsers. The engine should be able to render and simulate 200+ lightweight game objects -- frame-animated sprites with simple collision, no fancy physics or shaders. Reminder: for iOS, that means WebGL 1.0

Sprite

Sprite Simulation Build Code

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How to Design the Core Engine of Your Board Game

Why isn't Godot an ECS-based game engine?

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Harmony Games Deploys a Fully Custom Game Backend Utilizing AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK)

Adventures in Map Zooming, Part 2: Engine-level Architecture

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Godot Engine reaches 2.0 stable

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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 10

Godot XR progress update June 2021

Accelerating Load Times for DirectX Games and Apps with GDeflate for DirectStorage

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 9

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 13

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.1 RC 1

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 beta 10

Atari ST Programming: A Simple Game in STOS

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.1 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4.1 RC 3

Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.1

Top Emerging Free Game Development Tools and Trends!

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Module 4: Designing vs. Programming (Lessons 1-3)

Adventures in Map Zooming, Part 1: Realtime Image Scaling

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.2.4 beta 4

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

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Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 4

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 5

Release candidate: Godot 3.5 RC 2

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